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Show ! COAST BANKER TELLS CAUSE OF 'BUYERS' STRIKE' SAN PJlANCZSCd, Jan. 21. John H 1. Calkins, governor of the federal H reserve bank of ihe twelfth district H IJtoid the member of the California HH '- Industries association Thursday that H the "buyers' strike" would not ome bbbbbbbI to an end until an equitable relation had heo neatablishcd between producer;-' prices and consunu rs' pr. ts. He said the "strike" was u "trernendous- I ly effective" factor in the present cut - II (aliment of buslnei s I He told Ih Illustration of paying 7" i ents lor a handkerchief that before the war retailed at two for ISc, While 1 short staple cotto. of which thp hanri- (T ;j jU kerchief was made sells at present 1 fur 1C cents a pound N'o proper re- I latlon. he added exists opt ween wheat j and bread, wool snd woolen gooda ; . otton atid cotton goods. |